Full Professor
Biography
Emile Voest is professor of Medical Oncology, senior group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, senior scientist of the Oncode Institute, and translational scientist. He is the current chair of the board of directors of Cancer Core Europe, a collaboration of 7 excellent comprehensive cancer centers. Until 2021, he served as executive medical director of the Netherlands Cancer Institute. He is also an independent, non-executive board member of Sanofi, is co-founder and serves on the non-executive board of the Hartwig Medical Foundation. He recently has co-founded Mosaic Therapeutics, devoted to developing new combinatorial treatments in a specific genomic background.
His academic group is devoted to bringing precision medicine to patients and is focused on large scale genomic sequencing of patients with metastatic cancer, the development of co-culture models of primary cultures of tumors (i.c. organoids) and immune cells to improve drug development and immunotherapy and to determine which treatment is best for a specific patient via computational, integrated approaches.
